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  • March 17, 2026

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    Not running with scissors at GDC

    At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created the alternative controller interactive experience Don’t Run With Scissors.

  • March 17, 2026

    a girl stands in front of a TV screen displaying the words Floss Boss as she is interviewed by a man in the P C Gamer shirt.

    Get a flossing workout at alt.ctrl.GDC!

    At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created a giant toothbrushing interactive experience called Floss Boss.

  • March 17, 2026

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    RIT research could slow fibrosis disease progression
    Researchers in RIT's Tissue Regeneration and Mechanobiology Lab are investigating a new approach that could change how fibrosis is treated across organs in patients suffering from systemic sclerosis: targeting the protein TRPC6, a small ion channel—that can sense mechanical cues such as stiffness.

  • March 16, 2026

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    From Gap Year fellow to grocery stores

    Janessa Steenberg initially created the original recipe for herself to bridge a culinary gap between her vegan diet and the Italian-Maltese cuisine from her Toronto childhood and her grandmother’s kitchen.

  • March 16, 2026

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    Gap Year graduate finds gaming success

    Independent game developer Rami Ismail hired former Gap Year fellow Sam Magnolia and their cofounders at Aesthetician Labs — Noah Magnolia and Aidan Markham — to lead the development and production team for Australia Did It.

  • March 16, 2026

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    Got big ideas? Gap Year fellows do

    Hridiza Roy followed a summer internship at Disney Studios, with a fall position in the Gap Year Entrepreneurial Fellowship. The RIT program gave her a block of time and a stipend to advance her passion project—Painterly, an animation software tool.

  • March 16, 2026

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    RIT tech helps NASA astronaut photograph the cosmos

    When Don Pettit, NASA’s most senior astronaut, sought a way to accurately capture his view from the International Space Station, alumnus Peter Blacksberg connected him with Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.